GENEVA / OCHA DARAYA

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said international food aid has reached the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012. UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:02
• Production Date: 10 June 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1640837
• Parent Id: 1640837
• Alternate Title: unifeed160610c

Description

STORY: GENEVA / OCHA DARAYA
TRT: 1: 02
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 10 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations

10 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“A joint UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy delivered food for 2,400 people in Daraya overnight. Food was a standard for WFP monthly ration, which also contains wheat flour. Other relief included nutrition, health, water, sanitation and hygiene and non-food supplies for 4,000 which is the estimated population of Daraya”.
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We, of course, call for unconditional, unimpeded, and sustained humanitarian access to all people in need, wherever they are, but particular in besieged and hard to reach areas where we have still about 4.6 million people living under these conditions in Syria. And that the heart of this issue is of course that all the sieges must be lifted”.
6. Wide shot, journalists
7. Close up, microphone

Storyline

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said international food aid has reached the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva today (10 Jun) OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said a joint UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy reached Daraya with food and other relief items including nutritional, health, water, sanitation, hygiene, and non-food supplies. OCHA said this was a follow-up to a June 1st convoy which had delivered heath supplies including vaccines and nutrition supplies for children.

Laerke called for unconditional, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access to all people in need, especially some 4.6 million people living in besieged and hard to reach areas.

Laarke said the June convoy plan included 19 besieged areas, including is Deir-ez Zor which is already being reach through the air drops and Yarmouk where UNRWA also has ongoing access. LAerke said of the remaining 17 requests OCHA received 15 approvals by authorities.

OCHA said it was unable to assess the condition of Daraya’s population due to the limited time that was given by the Government for aid deliveries. The town has been under government siege since November 2012.